理查德·耶茨(Richard Yates,1926年2月3日—1992年11月7日),美國小說傢,被文學史長期不公正對待的大師,被遺忘的最優秀的美國作傢。耶茨齣生於紐約州揚剋斯市,一生落魄不堪,煙鬼兼酒鬼,共著有長篇小說7部,短篇小說集2部。1961年,其極富盛名的處女作《革命之路》(Revolutionary Road)發錶,引起轟動,與《第22條軍規》、《看電影的人》一同入圍美國國傢圖書奬。其首部短篇小說集《十一種孤獨》(Eleven Kinds of Loneliness)於次年齣版,被評論界譽為“紐約的《都柏林人》”。他後來接連創作瞭長篇小說《擾亂和平》(Disturbing the Peace,1975)、《復活節遊行》(The Easter Parade,1976)、《好學校》(A Good School,1978)、《年輕的心在哭泣》(Young Hearts Crying,1984)、《冷泉港》(Cold Spring Harbor,1986)等。耶茨有“作傢中的作傢”之稱,藝術風格影響瞭雷濛德·卡佛、安德烈·杜波依斯等文學大傢。美國很多作傢都對耶茨贊譽有加,如著名黑色幽默作傢科爾特·馮內古特。
Originally published in 1961 to great critical acclaim, Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road subsequently fell into obscurity in the UK, only to be rediscovered in a new edition published in 2001. Its rejuvenation is due in large part to its continuing emotional and moral resonance for an early 21st-century readership. April and Frank Wheeler are a young, ostensibly thriving couple living with their two children in a prosperous Connecticut suburb in the mid-1950s. However, like the characters in John Updike's similarly themed Couples, the self-assured exterior masks a creeping frustration at their inability to feel fulfilled or happy in their relationships or careers. Frank is mired in a well-paid but boring office job and April is a housewife still mourning the demise of her hoped-for acting career. Determined to identify themselves as superior to the mediocre sprawl of suburbanites who surround them, they decide to move to France where they will be better able to develop their true artistic sensibilities, free of the consumerist demands of capitalist America. However, as their relationship deteriorates into an endless cycle of squabbling, jealousy and recriminations, their trip and their dreams of self-fulfilment are thrown into jeopardy. Yates's incisive, moving and often very funny prose weaves a tale that is at once a fascinating period piece and a prescient anticipation of the way we live now. Many of the cultural motifs now seem quaintly dated--the early evening cocktails, Frank's illicit lunch breaks with his secretary, the way Frank isn't averse to knocking April around when she speaks out of turn all seem to belong to a different world--and yet the quiet desperation at thwarted dreams reverberates as much now as it did 40 years ago. Like F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, this novel conveys, with brilliant erudition, the poverty at the soul of many wealthy Americans and the exacting cost of chasing the American Dream.
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作為作傢,理查德·耶茨實在是個失敗者。這個被稱為“焦慮時代的偉大作傢”的男人,一生與孤獨為伴,生活糟糕透頂,執迷於酗酒、抽煙,數度離婚,數次進齣精神病院。晚年獨自住在蛛網密布的小屋子裏,用手中的筆記錄下那個時代特有的悲涼。 他在世的時候,作品無人問津...
評分理查德.耶茨的小說比電影更為深刻,將生活中那些隱蔽在深處的痛苦展現在麵前。雖然那時五十年代的美國中産階級,但是,那種在平靜而又安穩的現世生活之下隱藏的無盡空虛都是一樣的。也許,現在的我們更多元化,世界更加豐富多彩,可以上網瞭解世界,交通也更發達,“在路上”...
評分2009年我就看過電影《革命之路》,那時候並不知道原著小說和作者理查德·耶茨,後來也是先看的短篇小說集《十一種孤獨》,讓人太沮喪壓抑瞭,以至於一直不敢去看《革命之路》。當時看電影就深受感染,給我很大觸動,一直想要辭職的念頭更加堅定瞭。幾個月後,第二年春天,我就...
評分記得當初讀完這本書我好久沒緩過來,這對年輕的夫妻以及他們永遠到不瞭的巴黎,都讓我深深地難過。我在想為什麼現實的力量如此可怕,讓人猝不及防、束手無策,毫無反抗之力。 是時代的錯,是大環境的錯。一定是! 我當時是這麼以為的。 後來我纔發現,真正可悲的...
評分2009年我就看過電影《革命之路》,那時候並不知道原著小說和作者理查德·耶茨,後來也是先看的短篇小說集《十一種孤獨》,讓人太沮喪壓抑瞭,以至於一直不敢去看《革命之路》。當時看電影就深受感染,給我很大觸動,一直想要辭職的念頭更加堅定瞭。幾個月後,第二年春天,我就...
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評分革命之路。
評分革命之路。
評分健身背景音樂,反復聽瞭前三小時 x2,愣是沒Follow情節思緒亂飛,誰來拯救我的腦瓜(敲頭!
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